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How to keep Start Menu programs shortcut

defaultname365 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:04:49 +0800

OS : Windows Vista SP2
'Issue' : Start Menu programs shortcut (most frequently used) change according to usage
Solution needed : Start Menu programs shortcut does not change regardless of usage

I do not wish to pin them all. I remember in Windows XP, they had 'Super Toys' or something, that enables start menu programs shortcut to be locked.

Megan Fox is dumb as a rock, M Bay is like Hitler

defaultname365 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:38:50 +0800

Surprising this is not. I'd choose Sienna anytime over Megan. And don't get me started on M Bay.

Its them. The dumb rock and Hitler.

'Megan Fox is dumb as a rock,' claim Transformers film crew
Transformers star Megan Fox has been branded 'dumb', 'ungracious', 'rude' and an 'unbearable' actress by crew members on the multi-million pound films.

The star was blasted as 'trailer trash' better suited to a porn career by three crew members after she claimed Transformers director Michael Bay was 'like Hitler' in an interview.

The 23-year-old said: 'He's like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation.

He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward.

'He has no social skills at all. And it's endearing to watch him.'

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'She's as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone's hard work. Never a thank you.

Refer to pic below for what rock looks like:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...-dumb-rock.html

Nah... never liked her after Transformers 1. She was all hot and sexy back then, then she had this unsurmountable confidence of her superb appeal to men (and now she is saying, she likes girls too... ). She is literally oozing with overconfidence and making the boys/men drooling for her. And then even more. And Michael Bay... omg... he should just go work with some @$#!!%^ organization. Suits him better.

*Use of the name 'Hitler' is based on the source. Please be aware of any comments being made towards the use of this name.

Urban Dictionary:
dumb as a rock
Meaning: Terminally stupid.

QUOTE

The perp was dumb as a rock, and confessed in five minutes.

PEACE be upon all us.

defaultname365 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:08:17 +0800

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Let us live together in harmony. Put our differences aside. Let us not forget who we really are.
It is the least we can do during these trying times.

Life is precious. We only pass through this life once. Make it a good one.

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Backyard Bigfoot! (As reported by CNN)

defaultname365 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:38:27 +0800

...from surveillance image.

As reported by CNN
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The Fourth Kind | Alien Abduction

defaultname365 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:09:44 +0800

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The Fourth Kind

Official site:
http://www.thefourthkind.net/

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Kind

Apple Trailers:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thefourthkind/

Trailer:
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Production:
This is the first major film by writer and director Olatunde Osunsanmi, who is a protégé of independent film director Joe Carnahan. The movie is set up as a re-enactment of the original documentary footage. It also uses "never-before-seen archival footage that is integrated into the film.

Movie Details:
Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Produced by Paul Brooks & Joe Carnahan
Written by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas & Will Patton
Distributed by Universal Pictures

Release:
November 6, 2009

Know your encounters...

Close Encounter of the First kind
A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects

Close Encounter of the Second kind
An observation of a UFO, and associated physical effects from the UFO

Close Encounter of the Third kind
An entity is observed inside/outside/near UFO

Close Encounter of the Fourth kind
A human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants [/center]

Sienna Miller Hugo Boss

defaultname365 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:19:29 +0800

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Source

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It was hugs all round as a delighted Sienna Miller passed her driving test.

We thought the actress lost her L plates a long time ago.

But five months after completing a European test the 27-year-old passed the UK version in style.

When the examiner gave her the good news she hugged him before leaping out of the car and giving the same treatment to her instructor.

Earlier she had nervously edged through the back streets of West London before successfully pulling off a threepoint turn and niftily manoeuvring the three-door Corsa into a reverse park.

Then she anxiously bit her nails before the examiner delivered his Pass verdict.

Says our spy: "Sienna had been so nervous before.

She's an accomplished driver but was desperate to be able to drive here.

"When the examiner told her she'd passed she hugged him and leapt out of the car to bear-hug her instructor.

"She is thrilled to pieces to be on the road."

As Baroness In "G.I. Joe"

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# another reason to look forward to the movie

Windows and Reverb Nation

defaultname365 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:07:50 +0800

[center]Windows partners with Reverb Nation to Give Away 1,000+ Free Songs
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Starting today, you can discover and download songs from new artists across all genres totally free courtesy of Windows. Take a look and download for yourself.

Link: http://www.myspace.com/windows

Who says nothing is FREE from Microsoft ? [/center]

First Ever Apple Liver Transplant

defaultname365 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:38:42 +0800

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/business..._r=1&ref=health

Reports that Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, traveled to Tennessee for a liver transplant about two months ago raise many questions — not just about his prognosis, but also about the system for allocating scarce organs to the many people who need them. Whenever someone rich and famous receives a transplant, suspicions inevitably arise about whether that person managed to jump to the head of the waiting list and take an organ that might have saved the life of somebody just as desperate but less glamorous. The dark theories are a holdover from the case of Mickey Mantle, who waited all of one day for a liver in 1995, and then died from liver cancer anyway, just two months later.

Doctors also say there was no need, and little opportunity, to cheat the system. Under current procedures, any transplant center ranks potential liver recipients on its waiting list, with the highest rankings based on how sick the patients are and how long they have been that sick. Jumping ahead of a sicker patient is not allowed.

And yet, there are ways to work the system to one’s advantage. Waiting times for a liver vary in different parts of the country, and people who can afford to travel are free to go to a city or state with the shortest wait and bide their time until they have reached the top of the list, a donor dies and an organ becomes available. Indeed, some patients rent apartments or stay in hotels near a hospital and wait for the phone to ring. It may not seem fair, but it is not illegal.

It is even conceivable that someone could go to the time and expense of registering for the waiting lists of several transplant centers around the country.

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BBC2 eclipses over ITV1, Rarely Happens

defaultname365 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:52:39 +0800

BBC2 has had some great shows, but the big daddy ITV1 always crippled them! Not anymore. This is very rare indeed, and best of all - - it came CLOSE to the number of viewers of Sunday's F1 race.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/2...gear-tv-ratings

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Boosted by the return of Top Gear, which was watched by more than 7 million viewers, BBC2 scored a rare all-day ratings win over ITV1 yesterday, Sunday 21 June.

BBC2 had an 11.7% share of the audience between 6am on Sunday and 1am this morning, beating ITV1's share of 11.4%, according to unofficial overnight figures.

This is only the second time BBC2 has beaten ITV1 across a whole day since 2001 – the previous occasion was the day of the Live 8 concert, 2 July 2005. BBC2's average all-day share in the year to date is 7.8%, against ITV's 18.8%.

The BBC network only narrowly missed out on a peaktime win as well, with 15.8% of the audience, behind ITV1's 15.9%, between 6pm and 10.30pm.

Jeremy Clarkson did most of the damage with an average of 7.1 million viewers, 30% of the audience, watching the first in a new series of Top Gear between 8pm and 9.05pm.

The motoring entertainment show returned for its 13th series with formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher apparently "unveiled" as mystery driver, the Stig – although this appears to have been a publicity stunt.

In the 8pm hour Top Gear beat ITV1 documentary Stephen Tompkinson's African Balloon Adventure, which had 3.1 million viewers, a 13% share, and BBC1 drama Hope Springs, with 3.2 million viewers.

Clarkson's Top Gear co-presenter, James May, gave BBC2 another boost at 9pm with James May on the Moon. The documentary, marking the 40th anniversary of the moon landings, had 3.2 million viewers, 14% of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm.

The Moon documentary beat BBC1's Casualty 1909, which averaged 3.1 million viewers, but lost out to ITV1's Stephen Fry drama Kingdom, which had 4.6 million viewers, a 20% share of the audience.

Elsewhere yesterday, the British Grand Prix proved a big ratings draw for BBC1 with an average of 4.2 million viewers, 42% of the audience, between 12.10pm and 3.25pm.

The formula one race, which was won by Sebastian Vettel, peaked with 5.7 million viewers, a 53% share, between 1.45pm and 2.15pm.

F1 swept away the opposition, with none of BBC1's terrestrial rivals managing more than 1 million viewers at any point during the early afternoon.

ITV1's Dickinson's Real Deal repeat averaged 600,000 viewers between 1.30pm and 2.30pm, while another showing for a 1978 edition of Columbo had 900,000 viewers between 2.30pm and 4.30pm on the same network.

Later, ITV1 hospital drama The Royal returned for its seventh series with 4 million viewers, a 21% share of the audience, between 7pm and 8pm. The Royal was neck and neck with BBC1's Countryfile, which also had 4 million viewers.

BBC2's documentary series Empire of Cricket finished its four-part run with 900,000 viewers, a 6% share between 10pm and 11pm.

Empire of Cricket was beaten by Channel 4's Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which had 1.7 million viewers, 9% of the audience, and Channel Five's Vin Diesel movie repeat, xXx, which had 1.3 million viewers between 9pm and 11.20pm. Another 209,000 saw the Alan Carr talkshow on Channel 4 +1.

BBC2's all-day share was also boosted by four hours of live athletics from the European Team Championships in Portugal.

The athletics averaged 1.4 million viewers, 11% of the audience, between 3.30pm and 7.30pm, beating ITV1's Poirot repeat, which had 1.3 million viewers between 4.30pm and 6.30pm.

Last night's latest episode of Big Brother had 2 million viewers, 9% of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm on Channel 4. Big Brother was seen by another 343,000 on Channel 4 +1.

Sky Sports 1's live coverage of the World Twenty20 cricket final between Pakistan and Sri Lanka averaged 744,000 viewers, a 7% share of the audience in multichannel homes, between 2pm and 6.30pm.

The coverage peaked with just over 1 million viewers between 5.45pm and 6pm, as Pakistan took the World Twenty20 trophy, winning the match by eight wickets.

Before that, Sky Sports 1's live coverage of World Twenty20 women's final, in which England beat New Zealand, had 338,000 viewers over four hours from 10am. Viewing of this match peaked at 515,000 in the quarter hour from 12.45pm.

Man Pierce Coconuts With His Finger!

defaultname365 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:20:16 +0800

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail....0976&con_type=1

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A kung fu master has jabbed his way into the Malaysia Book of Records after piercing four coconuts with his index finger in 30.81 seconds.
"Now I will start preparing myself to get into the Guinness Book of World Records," Ho Eng Hui, 55, told the New Straits Times newspaper.

Hundreds of people, many of them tourists, witnessed the record- breaking coconut piercing in Malacca. Ho smashed his previous mark of breaking three coconuts in 70 seconds.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

And that's how you make a name for youself... wonder how he realized his ability too...

"The Stig" Finally Revealed

defaultname365 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:27:25 +0800

Top Gear Finally Reveals!

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Hint:

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It is...

Spoiler! Watch first.

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Latest News Source

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...massive slowness? I don't think so. No one has posted who he is here.

North Korea - - Hell on Earth ?

defaultname365 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:33:09 +0800

Note Serious Talk tag. Watch all the parts. It will move you. It really is terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=26...ing+north+korea

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Not a single day goes by without torture.

Children upto 3 generations are killed to 'remove' the evil seed.

Entire familiy in test chamber.

What could we possibly do... humanity has failed.

Shocking Video Evidence of Phone Radiation Effects

defaultname365 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:17:59 +0800

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Sources:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Ra...415804000&ty=nd

http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=...22999&Itemid=62

President Obama Is A Ninja

defaultname365 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:58:12 +0800

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Laptop Hunters : Microsoft vs. Homeless guy

defaultname365 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:52:30 +0800

Microsoft Ad "Laptop Hunters"
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Homeless Frank "Laptop Hunters"
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Man Sees His Past Life... In Current Life

defaultname365 — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:35:38 +0800

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Quote from replies:

QUOTE

Most people look like the person they have been in the life before this one.
Some more then others.

QUOTE

keep an open mind, never settle for one answer. many things may be able to happen after death, including reincarnation, who really knows? anyway, this was great, very interesting.

QUOTE

Why dont u want to believe in reicarnation?U would rather die and that the end thats all?

Finally Missing Link Found By Scientists !

defaultname365 — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:00:33 +0800

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2..._light_on_.html

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Feast your eyes on what a group of scientists call the Holy Grail of human evolution.
A team of researchers Tuesday unveiled an almost perfectly intact fossil of a 47 million-year-old primate they say represents the long-sought missing link between humans and apes.
Officially known as Darwinius masillae, the fossil of the lemur-like creature dubbed Ida shows it had opposable thumbs like humans and fingernails instead of claws.

Scientists say the cat-sized animal's hind legs offer evidence of evolutionary changes that led to primates standing upright - a breakthrough that could finally confirm Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
"This specimen is like finding the Lost Ark for archeologists," lead scientist Jorn Hurum said at a ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History.

"It is the scientific equivalent of the Holy Grail. This fossil will probably be the one that will be pictured in all textbooks for the next 100 years."
A team of amateur fossil hunters discovered the near-perfect remains inside a mile-wide crater outside of Frankfurt in 1983.

Experts believe the pit was a volcanic caldera where scores of animals from the Eocene epoch were killed and their remains were kept remarkably well-preserved.
Though the pit has been a bountiful source of other fossils, the inexperienced archeologists didn't realize the value of their find.

Years later, the University of Oslo bought the 95%-intact fossil, and Hurum studied it in secret for two years.
His colleague, Jens Franzen, hailed the discovery as "the eighth wonder of the world."
"We're not dealing with our grand, grand, grandmother, but perhaps with our grand, grand, grand aunt," Franzen said.

The unveiling of the fossil came as part of a carefully-orchestrated publicity campaign unusual for scientific discoveries.

A History Channel film on the discovery will air next week.
A book release and a slew of other documentaries will follow.

Darwin's Theory of Evolution finally proven ?

Grammar Police

defaultname365 — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:04:12 +0800

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Shocking Revelations from Xbox Tester

defaultname365 — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:36:39 +0800

Source:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/digitaljoystick/...from=blog_last3

What's it about:
7 interesting things that a recently laid off Xbox 360 hardware/software tester exposes (so he's got nothing to lose... )

Extracts from source:

1st. Interesting Thing
There is a super secret kill-switch remote suicide self-destruct command that if Microsoft really wanted to they can remotely trigger and tell an Xbox 360 to fry itself and die. This was intended to be a last resort option if a fight against Xbox Live cheaters or major league professional game piracy ever got big. To their knowledge it has only been done in test situation in the lab but if they wanted to they could have the regular system security sweeps over Xbox Live activate a kill command when it found a compromised hacked Xbox 360 system. It works by having the Xbox overload a fuse and "pop" the fuse.

It is not technically illegal for them to do this since attempting to hack an Xbox 360 is a violation of the Xbox Live Terms of Service EULA and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

2nd. Interesting Thing
Microsoft is currently software testing Metal Gear Solid 4 for Xbox 360. They might announce it at E3 but Konami likes to make money and Metal Gear Solid 4 was very expensive for them to make. Microsoft and Konami will not admit it before they are ready to but secretly builds of Metal Gear Solid 4 for Xbox 360 started being tested late last year.

3rd. Interesting Thing
Microsoft makes a lot of hardware prototypes and very few hardware projects actually make it to market. They probably did start to build a Blu-Ray player and a motion sensitive wand controller but they never got close enough to making it to market.

4th. Interesting Thing
The software testing group is chronically understaffed, underpaid, underfunded and given impossible deadlines. This results in games and DLC getting to market with game killing faults. Microsoft employes the services of a semi-sweat-shop testing contractor named VMC to run lots of Xbox 360 software tests. Rather than having skilled programers and testers do the tests they have mostly untrained people working long hours for minimum wage and no benefits.

Cutting corners on testing during the development of the original Xbox 360 Xenon hardware led to the RROD failures. Things are going from bad to way worse.

5th. Interesting Thing
Harmonix is having Microsoft's Xbox Test Labs run acceptance tests on the new Rock Band controller hardware.

6th. Interesting Thing
Really bad bugs are patched through title updates with very little fanfare but they will allow a game to go gold master and "RTM" (Release to Manufacturing) with major game killing bugs that they hope will not be discovered by customers until they get patched.
Microsoft has a vested interest in seeing a game not miss their intended publishing deadline and they are willing to bend the rules

7th. Interesting Thing
8bitjoystick.com was considered a forbidden site at VMC and the Xbox testing labs. They were discouraged from reading it or contributing comments.

My take on this:
That explains a lot. From the (already known) lack of testing on the Xenons to the number of "External Blu-Ray player for 360" (so yes, in Microsoft's deepest labs, there is a yet-to-be-released Blu-Ray external drive) reports, to the bugs in the games. Microsoft even knowingly ships games with bugs hoping customers won't find them in the game. And in the future, we could just be seeing MGS4 for Xbox 360, FFXIII is already coming for the 360, so its no surprise at all.

Sham Wow

defaultname365 — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:29:17 +0800

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